Trollope, Liberalism and Scripture

Interpreting Scripture According to Scripture

Notices Scripture and Interpretation

C. Stephen Evans, Mary Healy, and Murray Rae. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. Pp. xx + 553. $34.99. “Behind” the Text, the fourth volume of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, is a product of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (SAHS). According to their website, SAHS “was set up in 1998 to see what could be done to renew interpretation of the Bible as Scripture in the Academy.” SAHS striv...

Neurology in Holy Scripture.

This paper discusses possible neurological disorders in one of the oldest and most important monuments of human literature--'The Holy Scriptures'. These include epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, speech disorders, psychogenic disorders, head trauma, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The approach to and the 'miraculous' healing of these ailments is discussed.

Homosexuality in Scripture

The brief I have been given for this paper is to set homosexuality in the context of God's purposes for us as men and women. The source material I am to draw on is Scripture (the Old and New Testaments, and the approach is to be that of Biblical Theology. This may seem straightforward enough, but there are a number of things that need clarification at the outset if we are not to end in frustrat...

Pluralism, Relativism, and Liberalism

One major focus of recent value‐pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have ...